Country profile / KZ
Kazakhstan
Republic of Kazakhstan
Locally: Қазақстан · Казахстан
Capital
Astana
Region
Asia
ISO
KZ
Local time in Kazakhstan
live · IANAAlmaty
Asia/Almaty
Qyzylorda
Asia/Qyzylorda
Aqtobe
Asia/Aqtobe
Aqtau
Asia/Aqtau
Showing 4 of 5 time zones. The full identifier list appears in the reference ledger below.
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 96% of places in this atlas.
At 2,724,900 km², Kazakhstan ranks 10 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Land neighbors
5Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code KZ is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +7 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as Asia/Almaty should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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